If a soap bubble expands, the pressure inside the bubble:
is equal to the atmospheric pressure
decreases
increases
remains the same
According to the source material, the pressure inside a spherical soap bubble () is greater than the atmospheric pressure outside () due to surface tension . A soap bubble has two liquid-air interfaces, and the excess pressure is calculated using the formula , where represents the surface tension and is the radius of the bubble . From this relation, the total pressure inside is . If the bubble expands, its radius () increases. Since the internal pressure is inversely proportional to the radius, an increase in causes the excess pressure term () to become smaller, thus the overall pressure inside the bubble decreases.
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